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Re: ctrl-alt-F11



On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:11:00AM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> Hi,
> On my i386 box I run two X servers, one on vt9 (24-bit) and one on vt10
> (16-bit). From time to time I press the wrong function key when changeing
> servers, like ctrl-alt-F11. ctrl-alt-F11 immediately causes the machine to
> completely lockup, clocks stop, can't kill the X server, even the MagicSysRQ
> key does not work anymore, can not log in via the network. Is this exspected
> behaviour or did I manage to configure something wrong?

This is really not all that surprising, what video card is it?

Zephaniah E. Hull.
> 
> Christian.

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